Taylor County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Taylor County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Taylor County spend about 28 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 115 hours, about 4.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 42% less time on the road than the Florida average of 24.0 minutes each way, a difference of 10.2 minutes.

Taylor County holds about 0.1% of Florida's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Taylor County would save about 46 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,427 at the same national wage assumption used above.

Area	One-Way Commute	Daily Round-Trip	Yearly Time Spent	Estimated Yearly Cost	Local Road Traffic (VPD)
Taylor County	13.8 min	27.6 min	115 hrs/yr	$3,567	498
Florida	24.0 min	47.9 min	200 hrs/yr	$6,189	3,068
United States	22.4 min	44.8 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,790	1,355

The estimated yearly cost applies a single national rule of thumb (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics average hourly earnings), not a measurement of wages in this area - treat it as a rough estimate, not a paycheck figure. Local road traffic counts, vehicles per day on non-highway roads, come from proprietary Ticon and TrafficZoom data.

Commute Time Map: Florida Counties

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On average, it takes 13.8 minutes to get to work in Taylor County. That's 38% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Taylor County

• Car: 86.8%
• Worked at Home: 8.0%
• Walked: 2.9%
• Bicycle: 1.1%
• Other: 1.0%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Taylor County, versus 0.2% in Florida.

Public transit is unusually rare in Taylor County: 17.1 times less than the Florida average (0.1% vs 1.2%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Taylor County, versus 0.4% in Florida.

Commute Mode Trends in Taylor County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Taylor County get to work, as a share of all workers aged 16 and over, across 16 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) releases from 2009 to 2024. Each release is a 5-year estimate: the 2024 figures cover surveys taken from 2020 to 2024. Because neighboring releases share most of their survey years, the lines move gradually, and a sudden change such as the rise of remote work in 2020 spreads across several releases. Hover over or tap a line to highlight it, and use the legend to show or hide a mode. Driving starts hidden so the smaller modes stay readable.

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• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Bicycle
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Bicycle	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	94.5%	3.0%	1.3%	0.2%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	94.5%	3.6%	1.0%	0.1%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	93.5%	3.9%	1.9%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	95.1%	3.1%	0.8%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	94.2%	4.0%	1.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	94.7%	2.4%	0.9%	0.6%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	96.1%	1.4%	1.1%	0.4%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	95.9%	1.7%	1.0%	0.2%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	95.6%	0.7%	0.9%	0.1%	2.1%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2018	95.7%	0.9%	0.9%	0.2%	1.7%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%
2019	96.9%	0.9%	1.1%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2020	97.0%	0.5%	0.7%	0.4%	1.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2021	91.7%	5.7%	0.8%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2022	91.9%	5.4%	1.0%	0.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.0%	6.2%	1.7%	0.9%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.8%	8.0%	2.9%	1.1%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2020 at 97.0%. Overall it fell from 94.5% in 2009 to 86.8% in 2024, down 7.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Taylor County: its share of workers rose from 3.0% in 2009 to 8.0% in 2024, up 5.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Biking overtook public transit to become the 4th most common choice in the 2012 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Taylor County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Taylor County?

The bars show when commuters in Taylor County leave home for work, as a share of everyone who commutes (people who work from home are not counted), from the 2024 ACS 5-year estimates. The thin violet marks show Florida for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Taylor County9.2% Florida4.7%	9.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Taylor County2.0% Florida3.5%	2.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Taylor County4.7% Florida4.0%	4.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Taylor County12.0% Florida9.1%	12.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Taylor County10.1% Florida8.9%	10.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Taylor County15.3% Florida15.1%	15.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Taylor County18.3% Florida10.6%	18.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Taylor County7.7% Florida13.1%	7.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Taylor County2.0% Florida5.8%	2.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Taylor County4.8% Florida8.0%	4.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Taylor County1.8% Florida3.5%	1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Taylor County2.2% Florida1.5%	2.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Taylor County4.8% Florida6.3%	4.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Taylor County5.1% Florida5.9%	5.1%

Taylor County Florida Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Taylor County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 18.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.6% across Florida. Early starts are more common than in Florida: 15.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Florida: 51.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.7% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.8%) leave at 9 AM or later, which usually points to shift work, flexible hours or part-time jobs.

When people leave matters as much as how far they go. Rush-hour traffic shrinks how much ground a 20-minute trip covers, so a trade area drawn as a simple circle often takes in neighborhoods that customers or staff would never drive from and misses others that are an easy trip. A drive-time zone, also called an isochrone, outlines every place within a set number of minutes of an address, which makes it the more honest way to size a store's catchment, a hiring area or the commute from a new home.

See it for yourself on the interactive map: click any spot in Taylor County, pick a 5, 10, 15 or 30-minute drive and see the local demographics of the people who live within that exact drive time.

Is Taylor County Waking Up Earlier? Typical Departure Time, 2009-2024

Each line follows the typical (median) departure time: the moment by which half of commuters have already left home. Higher on the chart means a later start. Setting Taylor County next to Florida and the U.S. shows whether local mornings are drifting earlier or later than everyone else's. The figures span 16 ACS 5-year releases, so changes build up gradually rather than jumping from one year to the next.

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• Florida
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Taylor County	Florida	United States
2009	7:27 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:26 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:27 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:30 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:24 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:26 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:25 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:28 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:26 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:29 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:23 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:22 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:23 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:21 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:21 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:24 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Taylor County were on the road by 7:24 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:27 AM). That goes against the trend across Florida, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Taylor County now leave 14 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Taylor County's commute time compare?

Metric	Taylor County	Florida	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.8 min	24.0 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.0%	15.7%	15.0%
Walked	2.9%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Taylor County is 13.8 minutes, shorter than the 24.0 minutes in Florida.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.2% in Florida. 2.9% commute by walking, higher than the 1.4% in Florida.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau